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We hope you enjoy your visit, and we hope to see you at one of our local gatherings some second Saturday of the month. So you can plan ahead and mark your calendar, a list of all meeting Saturdays is in the framed image below. Meeting details for the next upcoming meeting are below that. Also, please visit our Google Maps page where you can find our location and get turn-by-turn instructions to get to our meeting place from your starting point. God bless you with His creativity today and always.

~~NEXT MEETING~~Saturday, November 12th, 2016

"Writing Exercise: Inspiration from the Past"

Each of us likely has at least one person in our past who we can consider an inspiration. Maybe it's a family member who braved the hardships of life after the 1929 stock market crash. Maybe it is a friend who fought a valiant fight against a health crisis and kept smiling the entire time. Maybe it's even a biblical (or other) historical character who upholds the personality and values you cherish as a goal for your own life.

For the first part of the exercise, your assignment will be to find at least three inspirational figures from your past or from the past. Make certain you have enough information about your chosen figures to answer some detailed personality questions about their lives and their beliefs. The questions are below, and for the next part of the exercise, you'll need to attend the October meeting or watch for an after-meeting update here.

Here's the basic information you need if you want to attend the November LCW meeting...

Below is our basic meeting location along with other information.

Location... Community Room on basement level LL2 (near the cafeteria) at Norton Audubon Hospital. The building is located just off of Poplar Level Road in Louisville, Kentucky. (For directions, click the Google Maps link above or type "1 Audubon Plaza, Louisville, KY 40217" into your GPS or map program.)

Day/Date... Saturday, November 8th, 2016

Doors Open... 5:00 p.m

Critique Time... 5:15-6:15 p.m. If you're joining us for this meeting, it's a great night to bring something for critique time. (4 to 5 copies of no more than 4 pages of your typed, double-spaced, and spell-checked manuscript.) If you have nothing for critique, you are welcome and encouraged to share your thoughts on someone else's writing. You can also use this time to do some writing and editing while away from ringing phones and other home distractions. If you're hungry, you can grab a little dinner from the cafeteria or one of the surrounding fast-food restaurants.

Meeting... 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. We will begin the meeting with prayer and some quick meeting business, like planning our upcoming Christmas dinner in December and a reminder about prayer requests & offering. After that, we will have a short devotion before starting our writing exercise.

LCW WELCOMES YOU TO OUR MONTHLY GATHERING

To find out more about our former meetings, and to make it easier to bring ideas for 2016, be sure to browse through our archives of 2014-2016 meeting announcements. The link is in the ribbon banner above.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Some questions to create outlines of the character traits that make up inspirational people from the past. (Answer all questions for each person you choose to outline.)

Age range for the most memorable part of his or her life.

Era description of your character's life. For example, did he or she live during the depression, during the hippie movement, in the Old Testament during a period of war or deliverance, in the New Testament during the life of Jesus, or in the time of one of the Great Awakening periods of modern religious history?

Location description of your character's surroundings. Was your character raised in a tenement apartment, a trailer park, or a mansion on a hilltop? Did surroundings get progressively better or worse? Was your character an only child, an older sibling, the baby of the family, or a lost middle child among many siblings? Did he or she work at a young age, or was college to career the afforded path?

If your character had two favorite quotes or cliches, what would they have been?

Finally, what makes or made your character an inspiration to you personally? You may also answer what made him or her an inspiration to others if you like.

Bring your character outlines with you to the meeting, or keep them for reference if you will work on this exercise later. These outlines will come in especially handy if you are participating in National Novel Writing Month aka NaNoWriMo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

NOTE: If you are a Kentuckiana Christian who writes, please come meet our members to see if you would like to join this group of writers and creators for our monthly meeting on the 2nd Saturday of each month. We will welcome you with God's Spirit of love and joy as we encourage you to pursue the gifts God has blessed you with. Write to us at the link below, or on our Facebook page or Twitter page (icons above), for more information.

In the Amazon links below, you can find some books by authors that are (or have been) members of Louisville Christian Writers. Books always make great gifts, and when you visit the links, be sure to click the author names to see what other books (including Kindle versions) they have available.